This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON VIII HOPING IN MERCY. "iEfje ILort taketft pleasure intfjem tfjat feat fjim, in tfjose tfjat fjopr in fjts mereg."--Psalm cxlvii. n. IF a preacher wish to secure for himself, from the very beginning of his discourse, the close attention of an audience; and if, therefore, he search for a text which will ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON VIII HOPING IN MERCY. "iEfje ILort taketft pleasure intfjem tfjat feat fjim, in tfjose tfjat fjopr in fjts mereg."--Psalm cxlvii. n. IF a preacher wish to secure for himself, from the very beginning of his discourse, the close attention of an audience; and if, therefore, he search for a text which will be likely to engage every hearer, so that the mere giving it out shall gain him, as it were, the good will of the assembly; he cannot do better than fix on those beautiful words of St. John, "God is love." Of all texts in the Bible, none, we suppose, is heard with greater complacency: its mere enunciation will commonly suffice to throw over a congregation an air of still but earnest expectation; as though there were perhaps hardly one in a crowded gathering who did not recognise, in the proposed subject, matter in which he had interest, which came within the compass of his understanding, and, at the same time, made a strong appeal to his heart. My brethren, I do not mean in the least to question the fitness of giving to this text this kind of supremacy. I cordially admit that the words are surpassingly attractive, wonderfully fitted to throw a kind of spell over an assembly of human beings, and to bind them all into the attitude of ardent and rivetted listeners. And yet we can hardly venture to doubt that the text falls soothingly on the ears of many who have false and dangerous thoughts on the benevolence of God. In the compass of the assembly, over which it has appeared to shed so much pleasure and benignity, there must, in all probability, be some, if not many, who are persisting in a life of rebellion against God, and who have therefore no right to be gladdened by the announcement of His being love. We do not, of course, mean that such...
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